The Shark-man, Nanaue

Kamohoalii, the King-shark of Hawaii and Maui, has several deep sea caves that he uses in turn as his habitat. There are several of these at the bottom of the palisades, extending from Waipio toward Kohala, on the island of Hawaii. A favorite one was at Koamano, on the mainland, and another was at Maiaukiu, the small islet just abreast of the valley of Waipio. It was the belief of the ancient Hawaiians that several of these shark gods could assume any shape they chose, the human form even, when occasion demanded.

ハワイ島とマウイ島の鮫の王カモホアリイは、深い海の洞穴をいくつも持っていて、代わる代わるそこを住まいにしていた。ハワイ島のワイピオからコハラのほうへ延びる絶壁のふもとには、そうした洞穴がいくつもある。お気に入りのひとつは本島のコアマノにあり、もうひとつは、ワイピオの谷のちょうど正面にある小さな島マイアウキウにあった。いにしえのハワイの人々は、これらの鮫の神のうち何人かは、いざというときには望むどんな姿にも、人の姿にさえなれると信じていた。

In the reign of Umi, a beautiful girl, called Kalei, living in Waipio, was very fond of shellfish, and frequently went to Kuiopihi for her favorite article of diet. She generally went in the company of other women, but if the sea was a little rough, and her usual companion was afraid to venture out on the wild and dangerous beach, she very often went alone rather than go without her favorite sea-shells.

ウミの治世に、ワイピオに住むカレイという美しい娘がいた。娘は貝がたいそう好きで、この好物を採りにしばしばクイオピヒへ行った。たいていはほかの女たちと一緒に行ったが、海が少し荒れていて、いつもの連れが荒々しく危険な浜へ出るのを怖がるときには、好きな貝をあきらめるくらいならと、一人で行くこともしばしばだった。

In those days the Waipio River emptied over a low fall into a basin partly open to the sea; this basin is now completely filled up with rocks from some convulsion of nature, which has happened since then. In this was a deep pool, a favorite bathing-place for all Waipio. The King shark god, Kamohoalii, used to visit this pool very often to sport in the fresh waters of the Waipio River. Taking into account the many different tales told of the doings of this shark god, he must have had quite an eye for human physical beauty.

そのころワイピオ川は、低い滝となって、一部は海に開いた水たまりに注いでいた。この水たまりは今では、その後の天変地異で落ちてきた岩にすっかり埋まっている。そこには深い淵があって、ワイピオじゅうの人が好んで泳ぐ場所だった。鮫の王の神カモホアリイは、ワイピオ川の真水で戯れようと、たびたびこの淵を訪れた。この鮫の神の行いについて語られる多くの話を思い合わせると、この神は人の体の美しさを見る目をよほど持っていたにちがいない。

Kalei, as was to be expected from a strong, well-formed Hawaiian girl of those days, was an expert swimmer, a good diver, and noted for the neatness and grace with which she would lelekawa (jump from the rocks into deep water) without any splashing of water, which would happen to unskilful divers, from the awkward attitudes they would assume in the act of jumping.

当時の丈夫で体つきのよいハワイの娘であれば当然のことだが、カレイは泳ぎの達者で、潜るのもうまく、レレカワ(岩から深い水へ跳び込むこと)を、へたな飛び込み手のように跳ぶときの不格好な姿勢から水しぶきを立てるようなことなく、きれいに優雅にやってのけることで知られていた。

It seems Kamohoalii, the King-shark, had noted the charms of the beautiful Kalei, and his heart, or whatever answers in place of it with fishes, had been captured by them. But he could not expect to make much of an impression on the maiden's susceptibilities in propria persona, even though he was perfectly able to take her bodily into his capacious maw; so he must needs go courting in a more pleasing way. Assuming the form of a very handsome man, he walked on the beach one rather rough morning, waiting for the girl's appearance.

どうやら鮫の王カモホアリイは、美しいカレイの魅力に目をとめ、その心——魚の場合に心の代わりをするものが何であれ——を奪われたらしい。けれども、みずからの姿のままでは、この娘の心に強い印象を与えることは望めなかった。もっとも、その大きな口に娘をまるごと収めることなら、たやすくできたのだが。そこで、もっと好ましいやり方で言い寄らねばならなかった。神はたいそう美しい男の姿を取って、やや荒れたある朝、浜辺を歩き、娘が現れるのを待った。

Now the very wildness of the elements afforded him the chance he desired, as, though Kalei was counted among the most agile and quick of rock-fishers, that morning, when she did come, and alone, as her usual companions were deterred by the rough weather, she made several unsuccessful springs to escape a high threatening wave raised by the god himself; and apparently, if it had not been for the prompt and effective assistance rendered by the handsome stranger, she would have been swept out into the sea.

さて、荒れた天気そのものが、神の望んだ機会を与えてくれた。カレイは岩場の貝採りのなかでも身軽で素早いほうに数えられていたが、その朝、いつもの連れは荒天に恐れをなしていたので、彼女は一人でやって来た。そして神自身が起こした高く迫る波から逃れようと何度も跳んだが、うまくいかなかった。そして、もしあの美しい見知らぬ男がすばやく力強く助けてくれなかったら、娘は海へさらわれていたであろう。

Thus an acquaintance was established. Kalei met the stranger from time to time, and finally became his wife.

こうして二人は知り合いになった。カレイはときおりその見知らぬ男と会い、ついにその妻となった。

Some little time before she expected to become a mother, her husband, who all this time would only come home at night, told her his true nature, and informing her that he would have to leave her, gave orders in regard to the bringing up of the future child. He particularly cautioned the mother never to let him be fed on animal flesh of any kind, as he would be born with a dual nature, and with a body that he could change at will.

母になろうとする少し前、夫は——このころずっと、夜にしか帰ってこなかったのだが——自分の本当の姿を打ち明け、去らねばならないと告げて、これから生まれる子の育て方について言いつけを残した。とりわけ、決してどんな獣の肉も食べさせてはならないと母に戒めた。その子は二つの性を持って生まれ、思いのままに変えられる体を持つことになるからである。

In time Kalei was delivered of a fine healthy boy, apparently the same as any other child, but he had, besides the normal mouth of a human being, a shark's mouth on his back between the shoulder blades. Kalei had told her family of the kind of being her husband was, and they all agreed to keep the matter of the shark-mouth on the child's back a secret, as there was no knowing what fears and jealousies might be excited in the minds of the King or high chiefs by such an abnormal being, and the babe might be killed.

やがてカレイは元気で健やかな男の子を産んだ。見たところほかの子と変わりなかったが、人としてのふつうの口のほかに、背中の肩甲骨のあいだに鮫の口があった。カレイは、自分の夫がどういう者であるかを家族に話していて、一同は、子の背にある鮫の口のことは秘密にしておこうと申し合わせた。そのような異形の者に対して、王や上位の首長たちの心にどんな恐れや妬みがかき立てられるか知れず、赤子は殺されかねなかったからである。

The old grandfather, far from heeding the warning given by Kamohoalii in the matter of animal diet, as soon as the boy, who was called Nanaue, was old enough to come under the taboo in regard to the eating of males, and had to take his meals at the mua house with the men of the family, took especial pains to feed him on dog meat and pork. He had a hope that his grandson would grow up to be a great, strong man, and become a famous warrior; and there was no knowing what possibilities lay before a strong, skilful warrior in those days. So he fed the boy with meat, whenever it was obtainable. The boy thrived, grew strong, big, and handsome as a young lama (Maba sandwicensis) tree.

年老いた祖父は、獣の肉のことについてカモホアリイが与えた戒めを顧みるどころか、ナナウエと名づけられたその子が、男の食べ物に関するカプを受ける年になり、家族の男たちとムアの家で食事をせねばならなくなるやいなや、わざわざ犬の肉と豚の肉を食べさせた。孫が大きく強い男に育ち、名高い戦士になってほしいという望みを抱いていたのである。そしてあの時代、強く腕の立つ戦士にどんな道が開けるか知れたものではなかった。そこで祖父は、手に入るかぎり肉をその子に食べさせた。子はよく育ち、強く大きくなって、若いラマ(マバ・サンドウィケンシス)の木のように美しくなった。

There was another pool with a small fall of the Waipio River very near the house of Kalei, and the boy very often went into it while his mother watched on the banks. Whenever he got into the water he would take the form of a shark and would chase and eat the small fish which abounded in the pool. As he grew old enough to understand, his mother took especial pains to impress on him the necessity of concealing his shark nature from other people.

カレイの家のすぐ近くには、ワイピオ川の小さな滝を持つもうひとつの淵があり、子は母が岸で見守るなか、たびたびそこへ入った。水に入るたびに子は鮫の姿になり、その淵にたくさんいる小魚を追っては食べた。分別のつく年ごろになると、母は、鮫の性をほかの人に隠さねばならないことを、とりわけ念入りに言い聞かせた。

This place was also another favorite bathing-place of the people, but Nanaue, contrary to all the habits of a genuine Hawaiian, would never go in bathing with the others, but always alone; and when his mother was able, she used to go with him and sit on the banks, holding the kapa scarf, which he always wore to hide the shark-mouth on his back.

この場所もまた、人々の好む泳ぎ場のひとつだったが、ナナウエは、生粋のハワイの人の習いにことごとく反して、決してほかの者と一緒に泳ごうとせず、いつも一人で泳いだ。母は体の動くうちは一緒に行き、岸に座って、彼が背中の鮫の口を隠すためにいつもまとっているカパの肩掛けを持っていた。

When he became a man, his appetite for animal diet, indulged in childhood, had grown so strong that a human being's ordinary allowance would not suffice for him. The old grandfather had died in the meantime, so that he was dependent on the food supplied by his stepfather and uncles, and they had to expostulate with him on what they called his shark-like voracity. This gave rise to the common native nickname of a manohae (ravenous shark) for a very gluttonous man, especially in the matter of meat.

大人になると、子どものころに満たされた獣の肉への食欲はあまりに強くなっていて、ふつうの人の一人前では足りなくなった。そのあいだに年老いた祖父は死んでいたので、彼は継父と叔父たちの与える食べ物に頼っていた。そして彼らは、その鮫のような大食いについて彼をたしなめねばならなかった。ここから、とりわけ肉についてたいそう食い意地の張った男を、マノハエ(飢えた鮫)と呼ぶ土地のあだ名が生まれた。

Nanaue used to spend a good deal of his time in the two pools, the one inland and the other opening into the sea. The busy-bodies (they had some in those days as well as now) were set to wondering why he always kept a kihei, or mantle, on his shoulders; and for such a handsomely shaped, athletic young man, it was indeed a matter of wonder and speculation, considering the usual attire of the youth of those days. He also kept aloof from all the games and pastimes of the young people, for fear that the wind or some active movement might displace the kapa mantle, and the shark-mouth be exposed to view.

ナナウエは、内陸の淵と海に開いた淵の二つで多くの時を過ごした。せんさく好きの者たち(今と同じく当時もそういう者はいた)は、なぜ彼がいつもキヘイ、すなわち肩掛けをまとっているのかと不思議がった。当時の若者のふつうの身なりを思えば、これほど美しい体つきの、たくましい若者にしては、まことに不思議で憶測を呼ぶことであった。彼はまた、若者たちの遊びや競い事からはすべて遠ざかっていた。風や激しい動きでカパの肩掛けがずれ、鮫の口が人目にさらされるのを恐れたからである。

About this time children and eventually grown-up people began to disappear mysteriously.

このころから、子どもたちが、やがては大人までもが、不可解に姿を消しはじめた。

Nanaue had one good quality that seemed to redeem his apparent unsociability; he was almost always to be seen working in his mother's taro or potato patch when not fishing or bathing. People going to the sea beach would have to pass these potato or taro patches, and it was Nanaue's habit to accost them with the query of where they were going. If they answered, "To bathe in the sea," or, "Fishing," he would answer, "Take care, or you may disappear head and tail." Whenever he so accosted any one it would not be long before some member of the party so addressed would be bitten by a shark.

ナナウエには、見かけの付き合いの悪さを埋め合わせるかに見えるよい点がひとつあった。漁にも水浴びにも出ていないときには、ほとんどいつも母のタロいもやさつまいもの畑で働いているのが見られたのである。海辺へ行く人々はこのさつまいもやタロの畑を通らねばならず、ナナウエはそうした人々に、どこへ行くのかと声をかけるのが常だった。「海へ泳ぎに」とか「漁に」と答えると、彼はこう答えた。「気をつけなさい、頭も尾も消えてしまわぬように。」彼が誰かにこう声をかけると、まもなくその一行の誰かが鮫に噛まれるのだった。

If it should be a man or woman going to the beach alone, that person would never be seen again, as the shark-man would immediately follow, and watching for a favorable opportunity, jump into the sea. Having previously marked the whereabouts of the person he was after, it was an easy thing for him to approach quite close, and changing into a shark, rush on the unsuspecting person and drag him or her down into the deep, where he would devour his victim at his leisure. This was the danger to humanity which his king-father foresaw when he cautioned the mother of the unborn child about feeding him on animal flesh, as thereby an appetite would be evoked which they had no means of satisfying, and a human being would furnish the most handy meal of the kind that he would desire.

もし一人で海辺へ行く男か女であれば、その者は二度と姿を見せなかった。鮫男はすぐさまあとをつけ、都合のよい折をうかがって海に跳び込むからである。追う相手の居どころをあらかじめ見定めてあるので、ごく近くまで寄り、鮫に姿を変えて、何も知らぬその人に襲いかかり、深みへ引きずり込むのはたやすかった。そこでゆっくりと餌食を食らうのである。王である父が、生まれる前の子に獣の肉を食べさせるなと母に戒めたのは、人の世に降りかかるこの危険を見越してのことだった。そうすれば、満たす手だてのない食欲が呼び覚まされ、人こそが、その求める種類の最も手近な食事となるのだから。

Nanaue had been a man grown some time, when an order was promulgated by Umi, King of Hawaii, for every man dwelling in Waipio to go to koele work, tilling a large plantation for the King. There were to be certain days in an anahulu (ten days) to be set aside for this work, when every man, woman, and child had to go and render service, excepting the very old and decrepit, and children in arms.

ナナウエが大人になってしばらくたったころ、ハワイ島の王ウミから、ワイピオに住む男はみなコエレの仕事に出て、王のための大きな畑を耕せという命が出された。アナフル(十日)のうち何日かがこの仕事のために定められ、ごく年老いて弱った者と乳飲み子のほかは、男も女も子どもも出て働かねばならなかった。

The first day every one went but Nanaue. He kept on working in his mother's vegetable garden to the astonishment of all who saw him. This was reported to the King, and several stalwart men were sent after him. When brought before the King he still wore his kapa kihei or mantle.

初日、ナナウエのほかは全員が出た。彼は母の菜園で働きつづけ、見る者はみな驚いた。このことが王に報せられ、屈強な男が数人、彼を連れに遣わされた。王の前に引き出されたときも、彼はなおカパ・キヘイ、すなわち肩掛けをまとっていた。

The King asked him why he was not doing koele work with every one else. Nanaue answered he did not know it was required of him. Umi could not help admiring the bold, free bearing of the handsome man, and noting his splendid physique, thought he would make a good warrior, greatly wanted in those ages, and more especially in the reign of Umi, and simply ordered him to go to work.

王は、なぜほかの皆と一緒にコエレの仕事をしていないのかと尋ねた。ナナウエは、自分にも求められているとは知らなかったと答えた。ウミは、この美しい男の大胆でのびやかなふるまいに感心せずにいられず、その見事な体格に目をとめて、あの時代に、ことにウミの治世にたいそう求められていたよい戦士になるだろうと考え、ただ仕事に出よと命じただけだった。

Nanaue obeyed, and took his place in the field with the others, and proved himself a good worker, but still kept on his kihei, which it would be natural to suppose that he would lay aside as an incumbrance when engaged in hard labor. At last some of the more venturesome of the younger folks managed to tear his kapa off, as if accidentally, when the shark-mouth on his back was seen by all the people near.

ナナウエは従い、ほかの者とともに畑に立ち、よい働き手であることを示した。けれどもなおキヘイを身につけたままだった。重い労働をするならば、邪魔になるものとして脱ぐのが当たり前と思われるのに、である。とうとう若い者のうちの向こう見ずな数人が、いかにも偶然のようにそのカパを引きはがすのに成功し、そのとき背中の鮫の口が近くにいた人々みなの目に入った。

Nanaue was so enraged at the displacement of his kapa and his consequent exposure, that he turned and bit several of the crowd, while the shark-mouth opened and shut with a snap, and a clicking sound was heard such as a shark is supposed to make when baulked by its prey.

ナナウエは、カパをずらされて正体をさらされたことにたいそう怒り、振り向いて群衆の何人かに噛みついた。そのあいだ背中の鮫の口は開いては閉じ、鮫が獲物を取り逃がしたときに立てるとされる、かちりという音を響かせた。

The news of the shark-mouth and his characteristic shark-like actions were quickly reported to the King, with the fact of the disappearance of so many people in the vicinity of the pools frequented by Nanaue; and of his pretended warnings to people going to the sea, which were immediately followed by a shark bite or by their being eaten bodily, with every one's surmise and belief that this man was at the bottom of all those disappearances. The King believed it was even so, and ordered a large fire to be lighted, and Nanaue to be thrown in to be burnt alive.

鮫の口のことと、その鮫そのものの所業は、たちまち王に報せられた。ナナウエがたびたび訪れる淵のあたりで多くの人が姿を消していること、海へ行く人々に警告めいたことを言うと、そのすぐあとにその人が鮫に噛まれるか丸ごと食われることも、そしてこの男こそこれらの失踪の元凶であるという皆の推測と確信も、あわせて報された。王はまさにそのとおりだと信じ、大きな火を焚いて、ナナウエを生きたまま投げ込んで焼けと命じた。

When Nanaue saw what was before him, he called on the shark god, his father, to help him; then, seeming to be endowed with superhuman strength in answer to his prayer, he burst the ropes with which he had been bound in preparation for the burning, and breaking through the throng of Umi's warriors, who attempted to detain him, he ran, followed by the whole multitude, toward the pool that emptied into the sea. When he got to the edge of the rocks bordering the pool, he waited till the foremost persons were within arm's length, when he leaped into the water and immediately turned into a large shark on the surface of the water, in plain view of the people who had arrived, and whose numbers were being continually augmented by more and more arrivals.

ナナウエは自分の身に何が迫っているかを知ると、父である鮫の神に助けを求めた。するとその祈りに応えて人ならぬ力を授かったかのように、焼かれるために縛られていた縄をはち切り、引きとめようとするウミの戦士たちの群れを突き破って走り出し、大勢に追われながら海へ注ぐ淵へ向かった。淵を縁取る岩の際まで来ると、先頭の者が腕の届くところに来るまで待ち、そこで水へ跳び込んだ。そしてたちまち水面で大きな鮫に姿を変えた。それは、着いた人々の目の前でのことで、その数は次々と加わる者で増えつづけていた。

He lay on the surface some little time, as if to recover his breath, and then turned over on his back, and raising his head partly out of the water, snapped his teeth at the crowd who, by this time, completely lined the banks, and then, as if in derision or defiance of them, turned and flirted his tail at them and swam out to sea.

鮫はしばらく息をととのえるかのように水面に浮かんでいたが、それから仰向けになり、頭を半ば水から持ち上げて、そのころには岸をびっしり埋めていた群衆に向かって歯を鳴らした。そして嘲るように、あるいは挑むように、向き直って尾を振ってみせ、沖へ泳ぎ去った。

The people and chiefs were for killing his mother and relatives for having brought up such a monster. Kalei and her brothers were seized, bound, and dragged before Umi, while the people clamored for their immediate execution, or as some suggested, that they be thrown into the fire lighted for Nanaue.

人々と首長たちは、こんな怪物を育てたかどで、母と親族を殺そうとした。カレイと兄弟たちは捕らえられ、縛られてウミの前へ引き立てられ、人々はただちに処刑せよと騒ぎ立て、ナナウエのために焚かれた火に投げ込めと言う者もあった。

But Umi was a wise king and would not consent to any such summary proceedings, but questioned Kalei in regard to her fearful offspring. The grieved and frightened mother told everything in connection with the paternity and bringing up of the child, and with the warning given by the dread sea-father.

けれどもウミは賢い王で、そのような性急なやり方には同意せず、カレイにその恐ろしい子について問いただした。悲しみ怯えた母は、子の父のことも育ちのことも、そして恐るべき海の父が与えた戒めのことも、すべて話した。

Umi considered that the great sea god Kamohoalii was on the whole a beneficent as well as a powerful one. Should the relatives and mother of that shark god's son be killed, there would then be no possible means of checking the ravages of that son, who might linger around the coast and creeks of the island, taking on human shape at will, for the purpose of travelling inland to any place he liked, and then reassume his fish form and lie in wait in the many deep pools formed by the streams and springs.

ウミは、偉大な海の神カモホアリイは総じて恵みをもたらす神であり、また力ある神でもあると考えた。もしその鮫の神の子の母と親族が殺されれば、その子の狼藉を止める手だてはまったくなくなってしまう。子は島の海岸や入り江のあたりをうろつき、思いのままに人の姿を取って、好きな場所へ内陸まで歩いていき、それからまた魚の姿に戻って、川や泉の作る深い淵の多くに身をひそめるかもしれないのだから。

Umi, therefore, ordered Kalei and her relatives to be set at liberty, while the priests and shark kahunas were requested to make offerings and invocations to Kamohoalii that his spirit might take possession of one of his hakas (mediums devoted to his cult), and so express to humanity his desires in regard to his bad son, who had presumed to eat human beings, a practice well known to be contrary to Kamohoalii's design.

そこでウミはカレイとその親族を放つよう命じ、祭司と鮫のカフナたちには、カモホアリイに供え物をして呼ばわり、その霊がハカ(その神に仕える口寄せ)の一人に宿って、人を食らうという、カモホアリイの意に反することを行った悪しき息子について、その望みを人に伝えてくれるよう願えと命じた。

This was done, whereupon the shark god manifested himself through a haka, and expressed his grief at the action of his wayward son. He told them that the grandfather was to blame for feeding him on animal flesh contrary to his orders, and if it were not for that extenuating circumstance, he would order his son to be killed by his own shark officers; but as it was, he would require of him that he should disappear forever from the shores of Hawaii. Should Nanaue disregard that order and be seen by any of his father's shark soldiers, he was to be instantly killed.

そのとおりにされ、鮫の神はハカを通して現れ、道を外れた息子の行いへの嘆きを述べた。神は、自分の命に背いて獣の肉を食べさせた祖父にこそ咎があると告げ、その酌むべき事情がなければ、自分の鮫の配下に命じて息子を殺させるところだ、しかしそうであるからには、ハワイの岸から永久に消え去ることを求める、と言った。もしナナウエがその命に背いて父の鮫の兵たちの目に触れれば、ただちに殺されるであろう、と。

Then the shark god, who it seems retained an affection for his human wife, exacted a promise that she and her relatives were to be forever free from any persecutions on account of her unnatural son, on pain of the return and freedom from the taboo of that son.

それから鮫の神は、人である妻への情をなお持っていたらしく、この人ならぬ息子のゆえに妻とその親族が永久に責められることのないようにと誓わせた。それが破られれば、息子は戻り、カプから解かれることになるというのである。

Accordingly Nanaue left the island of Hawaii, crossed over to Maui, and landing at Kipahulu, resumed his human shape and went inland. He was seen by the people, and when questioned, told them he was a traveller from Hawaii, who had landed at Hana and was going around sightseeing. He was so good looking, pleasant, and beguiling in his conversation that people generally liked him. He was taken as aikane by one of the petty chiefs of the place, who gave his own sister for wife to Nanaue. The latter made a stipulation that his sleeping house should be separated from that of his wife, on account of a pretended vow, but really in order that his peculiar second mouth might escape detection.

こうしてナナウエはハワイ島を去り、マウイ島へ渡ってキパフルに上陸し、人の姿に戻って内陸へ行った。人々に見とめられて問われると、自分はハワイ島から来た旅の者で、ハナに上陸してあちこち見物して回っているのだと答えた。たいそう見目がよく、感じもよく、話しぶりも心をとらえたので、人々はおおむね彼を気に入った。彼はその土地の小首長の一人にアイカネ(親友)として迎えられ、その首長は自分の妹をナナウエの妻に与えた。ナナウエは、誓いを立てたからという口実で、自分の寝所を妻のものとは別にすることを取り決めたが、実のところは、あの変わった第二の口が気づかれないようにするためであった。

For a while the charms of the pretty girl who had become his wife seem to have been sufficient to prevent him from trying to eat human beings, but after a while, when the novelty of his position as a husband had worn off, and the desire for human flesh had again become very strong, he resumed the old practice for which he had been driven away from Hawaii.

しばらくのあいだは、妻となった美しい娘の魅力が、人を食おうとする気持ちを抑えるのに足りたらしい。けれどもやがて、夫という立場の目新しさが薄れ、人の肉への欲がまた強まると、彼はハワイ島から追われるもととなった古い所業を再び始めた。

He was eventually detected in the very act of pushing a girl into the sea, jumping in after her, then turning into a shark, and commencing to devour her, to the horror of some people who were fishing with hook and rod from some rocks where he had not observed them. These people raised the alarm, and Nanaue seeing that he was discovered, left for Molokai where he was not known.

とうとう彼は、娘を海へ突き落とし、そのあとから跳び込んで鮫に姿を変え、食らいはじめるまさにその現場を見つかってしまった。気づかれていなかった岩場で釣り竿と釣り針で漁をしていた人々が、恐れおののきながらそれを見たのである。人々は騒ぎ立て、見つかったと知ったナナウエは、自分を知る者のいないモロカイへ去った。

He took up his residence on Molokai at Poniuohua, adjoining the ahupuaa of Kainalu, and it was not very long before he was at his old practice of observing and accosting people, giving them his peculiar warning, following them to the sea in his human shape, then seizing one of them as a shark and pulling the unfortunate one to the bottom, where he would devour his victim. In the excitement of such an occurrence, people would fail to notice his absence until he would reappear at some distant point far away from the throng, as if engaged in shrimping or crabbing.

彼はモロカイでは、カイナルのアフプアアに隣り合うポニウオフアに住みついた。そしてほどなく、人を見張っては声をかけ、例の変わった警告を与え、人の姿のままで海までついていき、それから鮫となって一人を捕らえ、不運なその者を底へ引きずり込んで食らうという、以前の所業に戻った。そうした騒ぎのさなかには、人々は彼の不在に気づかず、やがて彼は群衆から遠く離れた場所に、小海老か蟹でも採っていたかのような顔で現れるのだった。

This went on for some time, till the frightened and harassed people in desperation went to consult a shark kahuna, as the ravages of the man-eating shark had put a practical taboo on all kinds of fishing. It was not safe to be anywhere near the sea, even in the shallowest water.

これがしばらく続き、とうとう怯え疲れた人々はやけになって、鮫のカフナに相談に行った。人食い鮫の狼藉が、あらゆる漁に事実上のカプをかけてしまっていたからである。海の近くはどこも、どんなに浅い水でさえ安全ではなかった。

The kahuna told them to lie in wait for Nanaue, and the next time he prophesied that a person would be eaten head and tail, to have some strong men seize him and pull off his kapa mantle, when a shark mouth would be found on his back. This was done, and the mouth seen, but the shark-man was so strong when they seized him and attempted to bind him, that he broke away from them several times. He was finally overpowered near the seashore and tightly bound. All the people then turned their attention to gathering brush and firewood to burn him, for it was well known that it is only by being totally consumed by fire that a man-shark can be thoroughly destroyed, and prevented from taking possession of the body of some harmless fish shark, who would then be incited to do all the pernicious acts of a man-shark.

カフナは人々に、ナナウエを待ち伏せ、次に誰かが頭も尾も食われると予言したときには、屈強な男たちに彼を取り押さえさせ、カパの肩掛けを引きはがせ、そうすれば背中に鮫の口が見つかるだろうと教えた。そのとおりにされ、口は見られた。けれども鮫男は、捕らえて縛ろうとすると、たいそう強い力で何度も振りほどいた。とうとう海辺の近くで取り押さえられ、きつく縛られた。それから人々はみな、彼を焼くための柴と薪を集めることに気を向けた。鮫男を完全に滅ぼし、罪のない魚である鮫の体に取り憑いて、その鮫に人食い鮫の悪しき行いをさせるのを防ぐには、火で焼き尽くすほかないとよく知られていたからである。

While he lay there on the low sandy beach, the tide was coming in, and as most of the people were returning with fagots and brush, Nanaue made a supreme effort and rolled over so that his feet touched the water, when he was enabled at once to change into a monster shark. Those who were near him saw it, but were not disposed to let him off so easily, and they ran several rows of netting makai, the water being very shallow for quite a distance out. The shark's flippers were all bound by the ropes with which the man Nanaue had been bound, and this with the shallowness of the water prevented him from exerting his great strength to advantage. He did succeed in struggling to the breakers, though momentarily growing weaker from loss of blood, as the people were striking at him with clubs, spears, stone adzes and anything that would hurt or wound, so as to prevent his escape.

彼が低く砂の浜に横たわっているあいだに潮が満ちてきた。そして人々のほとんどが薪と柴を持って戻ってくるころ、ナナウエは渾身の力で転がって足を水に触れさせ、たちまち巨大な鮫に姿を変えることができた。近くにいた者たちはそれを見たが、そうやすやすと逃がす気はなく、マカイ(海側)に網を何列も張った。そのあたりはかなり沖まで水がごく浅かったのである。鮫の鰭は、人であったナナウエを縛っていた縄でみな縛られていて、それと水の浅さのために、その大きな力を十分にふるうことができなかった。彼はもがきながら砕け波までたどり着きはしたが、逃がすまいと人々が棍棒、槍、石の手斧、そのほか傷つけられるものは何でも使って打ちかかったので、血を失って刻々と弱っていった。

With all that, he would have got clear, if the people had not called to their aid the demigod Unauna, who lived in the mountains of upper Kainalu. It was then a case of Akua vs. Akua, but Unauna was only a young demigod, and not supposed to have acquired his full strength and supernatural powers, while Nanaue was a full-grown man and shark. If it had not been for the latter's being hampered by the cords with which he was bound, the nets in his way, as well as the loss of blood, it is fully believed that he would have got the better of the young local presiding deity; but he was finally conquered and hauled up on the hill slopes of Kainalu to be burnt.

それでも、人々が上手のカイナルの山に住む半神ウナウナの助けを呼ばなければ、彼は逃げおおせていただろう。それはアクア対アクアの戦いであったが、ウナウナはまだ若い半神で、力も人ならぬ術も十分に身につけていないとされていたのに対し、ナナウエは十分に育った男であり鮫であった。もし縛られた縄に妨げられ、行く手に網があり、血を失っていなければ、この土地を治める若い神を打ち負かしていたにちがいないと、誰もが信じている。けれどもとうとう打ち負かされ、焼かれるためにカイナルの丘の斜面へ引き上げられた。

The shallow ravine left by the passage of his immense body over the light yielding soil of the Kainalu Hill slope can be seen to this day, as also a ring or deep groove completely around the top of a tall insulated rock very near the top of Kainalu Hill, around which Unauna had thrown the rope, to assist him in hauling the big shark uphill. The place was ever afterwards called Puumano (Shark Hill), and is so known to this day.

その巨体がカイナルの丘の斜面のやわらかい土の上を引かれていったときにできた浅い窪みは、今日でも見ることができる。またカイナルの丘の頂のすぐ近くに立つ高い一枚岩の頂を、ぐるりと一周する輪のような深い溝も見られる。ウナウナがこの大鮫を丘の上へ引き上げるのを助けるために、そこへ綱をかけたのである。この場所はそれ以来プウマノ(鮫の丘)と呼ばれ、今日もその名で知られている。

Nanaue was so large, that in the attempt to burn him, the blood and water oozing out of his burning body put out the fire several times. Not to be outwitted in that way by the shark son of Kamohoalii, Unauna ordered the people to cut and bring for the purpose of splitting into knives, bamboos from the sacred grove of Kainalu. The shark flesh was then cut into strips, partly dried, and then burnt, but the whole bamboo grove had to be used before the big shark was all cut. The god Mohoalii (another form of the name of the god Kamohoalii), father of Unauna, was so angered by the desecration of the grove, or more likely on account of the use to which it was put, that he took away all the edge and sharpness from the bamboos of this grove forever, and to this day they are different from the bamboos of any other place or grove on the islands, in this particular, that a piece of them cannot cut any more than any piece of common wood.

ナナウエはあまりに大きかったので、焼こうとしても、焼ける体からしみ出る血と水が何度も火を消してしまった。カモホアリイの鮫の息子にそうやって出し抜かれまいと、ウナウナは人々に、カイナルの聖なる竹林から竹を切って持ってきて、それを割って刃物にせよと命じた。鮫の肉は細長く切られ、半ば乾かしてから焼かれたが、この大鮫を切り終えるまでに竹林をまるごと使い果たさねばならなかった。ウナウナの父である神モホアリイ(神カモホアリイの名の別の形)は、この林が汚されたことに、あるいはむしろそれが使われた用途のゆえに、たいそう怒って、この林の竹から刃の鋭さを永久に取り去ってしまった。それゆえ今日でも、ここの竹はこの点で島々のどの場所、どの林の竹とも違っていて、その一片はふつうの木片ほどにも物を切ることができない。